🔥 MUST READ: Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Scams to Watch out for

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Quote from: opg777 on June 24, 2018, 08:27:51 AM

Also, be careful, sometimes some campaigns distribute coins (airdrop) and offer to download their own purse, which contains a virus that later steals your data or sells analytics to use your device to sell the data to advertisers.

This is a tough one to prevent for the average Joe. Almost all wallets trigger an anti virus alert (and they need to be manually whitelisted to enable launch), it‘s extremely difficult to see whether the wallet comes with a built in surprise.

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Also, be careful, sometimes some campaigns distribute coins (airdrop) and offer to download their own purse, which contains a virus that later steals your data or sells analytics to use your device to sell the data to advertisers.

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Education is the safest bet to not get scammed. Crypto is, after all, a complex topic.

Some scam coins/airdrops ask for private keys, if you don’t understand the difference between public / private key, you are easily relieved of your coins.

New exchanges / mining pools can also be dangerous. They may look legit and still run off with your coins.

Crypto is still Wild West. No central authority to help you out. By design. Careful out there

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Quote from: Derizo on May 28, 2018, 09:24:54 AM

Scamming is a major issue in the world of cryptocurrency. They are the dirty fish in the pond. My advise for people is to check the company before investing in them. Check their development team and do background research before forking out your cash.

As there's so much scam ICOs out there, right now I'd just simply suggest to NOT invest in ICOs. I'd personally just invest in the top reputable coins instead.

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Scamming is a major issue in the world of cryptocurrency. They are the dirty fish in the pond. My advise for people is to check the company before investing in them. Check their development team and do background research before forking out your cash.

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I probably will never figure it out.

You're really likely to not figure it out if you don't educate yourself.

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Quote from: dangnghia2112 on May 22, 2018, 11:35:20 PM

You should adding SCAM Airdrop, too. Such as: DENTACOIN, or nearly GXS. That's not meaning that coin is scam. Just someone make scam airdrop base on existing coin:
- Firstly, they collect ETH address and private informations (that's is usual as other airdrops)
- Secondly, they call for donation for airdrop, not small as gas fee, they call for big donation, may be 1, 5 Eth or more for bonuses.
- Thirdly, they cheat some chickens by call them to give wallet's private key for examining that you owning that address or not
- And more...

Though a big percentage of airdrops are scams to start with, I agree. I'll add airdrops to the list soon. Thanks for the heads up!

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You should adding SCAM Airdrop, too. Such as: DENTACOIN, or nearly GXS. That's not meaning that coin is scam. Just someone make scam airdrop base on existing coin:
- Firstly, they collect ETH address and private informations (that's is usual as other airdrops)
- Secondly, they call for donation for airdrop, not small as gas fee, they call for big donation, may be 1, 5 Eth or more for bonuses.
- Thirdly, they cheat some chickens by call them to give wallet's private key for examining that you owning that address or not
- And more...

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Edited the post to add the IMG tags. Thanks for the merits!

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Quote from: jseverson on May 22, 2018, 03:03:38 AM

You may also want to link this in case people don't believe that most ICOs are scams until they see actual figures lol. Perfect for that red text "a good percentage of ICOs are indeed scams":

People probably still think it's still like lastyear, where pretty much majority of the ICOs turned into a profit.

Quote from: jseverson on May 22, 2018, 03:03:38 AM

Aaand you should have enough merits to be a member for those images now! Keep up the good work!

Thanks! Now I'd have to wait til I have 60 activity Roll Eyes

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You may also want to link this in case people don't believe that most ICOs are scams until they see actual figures lol. Perfect for that red text "a good percentage of ICOs are indeed scams":

https://www.investopedia.com/news/80-icos-are-scams-report/

Aaand you should have enough merits to be a member for those images now! Keep up the good work!

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Quote from: scout5 on May 21, 2018, 07:19:52 AM

I didn't know domains like "biṇaṇce.com" could be used. Thanks for the warning.

You're welcome. Hackers and scammers can be really really creative and innovative when making their scams convincing.

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I didn't know domains like "biṇaṇce.com" could be used. Thanks for the warning.

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Quote from: wiser on May 19, 2018, 11:32:27 AM

That's a great OP. It's crazy how scams can be categorized as when it comes right down to it, they're all basically the same.

On the scam ICO topic, it's important to note that many ICO projects started by sincere and honest people also fail due to lack of resources of various kinds making them unable to ultimately deliver. You have to really know some financial terms and concepts in order to properly conduct due diligence on such projects. You can find lots of information at https://dnotesedu.com/

This op-ed article contains some interesting statistics about ICOs: https://dcebrief.com/op-ed-icos-are-damaging-crypto/

True. Some projects simply don't have enough funding. Those projects are probably a minority compared to the number of scams though. Thanks for the heads up. And thanks for the merit!

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Thanks for the vital info.

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That's a great OP. It's crazy how scams can be categorized as when it comes right down to it, they're all basically the same.

On the scam ICO topic, it's important to note that many ICO projects started by sincere and honest people also fail due to lack of resources of various kinds making them unable to ultimately deliver. You have to really know some financial terms and concepts in order to properly conduct due diligence on such projects. You can find lots of information at https://dnotesedu.com/

This op-ed article contains some interesting statistics about ICOs: https://dcebrief.com/op-ed-icos-are-damaging-crypto/

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Quote from: tigerkings on May 18, 2018, 07:29:39 PM

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More will be added to the list in the future.

Hi. When are you planning on adding more to the list?

If I have time. I'm currently on a trip.

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Who can help me contact admin. I have just been ripped by this vendor https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1999963.80

I believe that admins are aware of this adverts here on this site?

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More will be added to the list in the future.

Hi. When are you planning on adding more to the list?

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Quote from: jseverson on May 18, 2018, 02:47:30 AM

I would add scam emails/PMs under phishing sites. They often come from seemingly official email accounts, say there's a problem with your account somewhere, and ask you to click a seemingly legitimate link to log in, only to direct you to a phishing site. They're not as common as the typical attacks, and often not sophisticated enough to be believable, but I thought they're still worth mentioning.

Thanks for heads up. I mentioned emails on our site but for some reason missed the copy-paste on that part.

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